“It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing”: Jazz, Para-audible Cadence, and Deep Listening in and around Cortázar’s Rayuela

Author(s):  
Lee Dylan Campbell
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2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Tamara Blakemore ◽  
Elsie Randall ◽  
Louise Rak ◽  
Felicity Cocuzzoli

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 205920432110328
Author(s):  
Mia Kuch ◽  
Clemens Wöllner

Mobile music listening is widely recognized as an integral part of everyday music use. It is also a rather peculiar experience, since the listeners are surrounded by strangers in public and at the same time engaged in a solitary and private activity. The current study aimed at investigating the functions and experiences of mobile listening with a quantitative online questionnaire, and collected further information about mobile listening situations and listening habits. Among respondents ( n = 203), 89% reported listening to music while being on the move. We found mood-related and cognitive functions to be most prevalent (e.g., enhancing mood, relaxation, prevention of being bored), whereas least important functions relate to social dimensions (e.g., feeling less lonely, feeling less watched). Regarding experiences of mobile music, respondents most commonly adapted their mood to the music and lost touch with the current surroundings. A principal component analysis on ratings of functions and experiences resulted in an underlying structure of five dimensions, representing different levels of involvement: (1) Mood Management comprises functions to satisfy individual needs; (2) Absorption and Aestheticization encompasses deep listening experiences and altered perception of the surroundings; (3) Social Encapsulation and Self-Focus describe the distancing of oneself and changes in attention; (4) Distraction and Passing Time include the prevention of being bored and making time pass faster; and (5) Auditory Background is defined by a non-attentive and rather unaffected music listening. These results highlight the immersiveness of mobile music listening. By creating an individual soundworld, listeners distance themselves from the surroundings aurally and mentally, and modify their attention, perception, moods, and emotions, leading to an improvement of daily life experiences while moving.


2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesa Clague ◽  
Neil Harrison ◽  
Katherine Stewart ◽  
Caroline Atkinson

School-based gardens (SBGs) are contributing to improvements in many areas of education, including nutrition, health, connectedness and engagement of students. While considerable research has been conducted in other parts of the world, research in Australia provides limited understanding of the impact of SBGs. The aim of this paper is to give a reflective viewpoint on the impact of SBGs in Australia from the perspective of an Aboriginal philosophical approach called Dadirri. The philosophy highlights an Australian Aboriginal concept, which exists but has different meanings across Aboriginal language groups. This approach describes the processes of deep and respectful listening. The study uses photovoice as a medium to engage students to become researchers in their own right. Using this methodology, students have control over how they report what is significant to them. The use of photovoice as a data collection method is contextualised within the Aboriginal philosophical approach to deep listening. For the first author, an Aboriginal researcher (Clague), the journey is to find a research process that maintains cultural integrity and resonates with the participants by affirming that a culturally sensitive approach to learning is important.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-269
Author(s):  
Brent D. Rowan

This paper examines the impact of creating music in an improvisational jazz style on an amateur adult musician’s mind, body, and spirit. Learning jazz improvisation skills can help build more empathetic human beings, when the focus of improvisation is on reacting to what you hear in a clear and concise manner. Life skills are developed by focusing on deep listening and communicating with other musicians. Enabling a person to talk to, listen to, and understand those around them builds community and understanding, and lessens the likelihood of conflict. This allows growth and progress to take place in society, making the cultural capital built from a jazz improvisation program invaluable.


2018 ◽  
pp. 365-370
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Kreitzer

Social issues in education, housing, employment and the environment are linked and have a major impact on health comes. Effective leadership is collaborative and grounded in the shared values of people who work together to effect positive change. Whole-systems leadership builds capacity for adaptability, learning, and innovation. In displaying whole-system leadership, integrative nurses much engage in deep listening, have an awareness of the systems in which they are operating, have an awareness of self, seek diverse perspectives, suspend and embrace uncertainty when appropriate, and be ready take adaptive action. This chapter discusses whole-systems leadership in the context of integrative nursing and healing.


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